I’m starting to think the only way to handle this problem is to begin expelling large groups of students. They don’t even seem to care that the federal government has gotten involved in this.
NBC News reports:
Columbia University students plan to build tent encampments this week, sources sayA group of protesters is planning to set up tent encampments on Columbia University campuses this week in protest of the war in Gaza, according to three people familiar with the planning and a recording of a meeting to plan the action shared with NBC News.The planned encampments come just over a year after students first erected about 50 tents on a university lawn to protest the war and drew the world’s attention.Those demonstrations, in part, fueled the Trump administration’s effort to extract concessions from Columbia, saying the university failed to quell antisemitism on its campus.Planning for the encampments has been shrouded in secrecy.The coordinating meeting took place at a community center on Tuesday night in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, approximately 12 miles from campus, according to screenshots of Signal messages from organizers and a person who was at the meeting.Invitations for the meeting were largely distributed in person or verbally over the phone, according to the person who attended the meeting and asked not to be named due to fears of discipline from the school.More than 100 people were present at the gathering and all wore masks to conceal their identities, according to the person. It is unclear if all of the participants were Columbia students, the person said.The student organizers did not introduce speakers by name and instead used Signal usernames and code names — including the beloved Pokémon “Squirtle” and words such as “butterfly” — to distinguish one another, according to the recording.
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